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New York City, N.Y., Aug 3, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- “Man can live without science, he can live without bread, but without beauty he could no longer live, because there would no longer be anything to do to the world. The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here.”So wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Demons, one of four of his greatest novels. The Russian Orthodox novelist would find himself in agreement with a Polish Roman Catholic Pope, who more than a century later wrote of the Catholic Church’s need for beauty, and artists who could create that beauty. “Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savour life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God…” wrote Pope John Paul II in his 1999 Letter to Artists.Himself an artist as an accomplished actor and poet, Pope John Paul II saw the need to appeal to artists ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Leonardo DiCaprio has given good friend Jonah Hill a scare on a New York City street....
ATWATER, Calif. (AP) -- A bus was nearly sliced in half after plowing into a highway pole in California's heavily agricultural San Joaquin Valley, killing five people as survivors faced horrific scene of wounds and screams....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely....
God loves you! This is probably one of the earliest truths we learn about Him. But it's amazing how we can know a concept intellectually and still not really grasp it. To really explore God's love for us...
New York City, N.Y., Aug 3, 2016 / 12:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Grassroots movements, local communities, and faith-based organizations – especially the Catholic Church – have an important role to play in building peace and preventing conflict in Africa, said a Holy See representative.Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic nuncio leading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations, spoke July 28 to an open session of the U.N. Security Council on peace building in Africa.Faith-based and grassroots groups have “concrete knowledge of local realities” and immediate interactions with locals, the archbishop said.“They empower individuals and societies at a local level, identify and nurture new leaders, and rally communities to work together for the greater human good. They get results that local individuals and communities can easily relate to and identify with.”Archbishop Auza said the Catholic Church's direct contribution...
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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese legal rights activist was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison on subversion charges Wednesday, in the second in a series of cases underscoring the ruling Communist Party's determination to rein in government critics....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are about to test voters' anti-establishment mood, first hand....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The career cop picked to lead America's largest police department is embracing a throwback strategy to repair the deep rift that has opened between officers and the public. He wants patrol officers to get to know people on their beat on a first-name basis....
